Plot Brainstorming
October 20th 2009 12:13
You probably already know something about brainstorming. It's a good way to think of ideas, and to keep them in one place. Always write ideas down or you are likely to lose them.
Today you're going to brainstorm potential plots, conflicts that may develop in the world you've built over the last week.
You're going to do this by using an idea web. An idea web has a bubble in its center which contains the main idea, and then lines branching out from that bubble to other bubbles, which contain related ideas.
Your world is the main idea, and you'll want to have three separate bubbles in separate areas of the page. Take a look at your map. Put the names of the three largest countries in the three bubbles.
Pick one country and think about it for a few minutes. Think about the government, religious rules, and daily hardships. What about its governmental or religious system could cause conflict? What kind of conflict could these things cause? Ones that you feel you could write a novel about, put in their own bubbles.
Do this for five minutes and then repeat for each country. Finally, brainstorm five conflicts that could happen anywhere in your world.
Over the next few days you'll pick a plot and do a little more world-building, and then we'll start on character.
Prompt
Magic
Today you're going to brainstorm potential plots, conflicts that may develop in the world you've built over the last week.
You're going to do this by using an idea web. An idea web has a bubble in its center which contains the main idea, and then lines branching out from that bubble to other bubbles, which contain related ideas.
Your world is the main idea, and you'll want to have three separate bubbles in separate areas of the page. Take a look at your map. Put the names of the three largest countries in the three bubbles.
Pick one country and think about it for a few minutes. Think about the government, religious rules, and daily hardships. What about its governmental or religious system could cause conflict? What kind of conflict could these things cause? Ones that you feel you could write a novel about, put in their own bubbles.
Do this for five minutes and then repeat for each country. Finally, brainstorm five conflicts that could happen anywhere in your world.
Over the next few days you'll pick a plot and do a little more world-building, and then we'll start on character.
Prompt
Magic
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